本书是雨果继《巴黎圣母院》之后创作的又一部气势恢宏的鸿篇巨著，是最能代表雨果的思想和艺术风格的长篇小说。全书以卓越的艺术魅力，展示了一幅自1793年法国大革命至1832年巴黎人民起义期间，法国近代社会生活和政治生活的辉煌画卷，最大限度地体现了雨果在叙事方面的过人才华，是文学史上现实主义与浪漫主义结合的典范。小说集中反映了雨果的人道主义思想，饱含了雨果对于人类苦难命运的关心和对末来坚定不移的信念，具有震撼人心的艺术感染力。

One of the great Classics of Western literature,Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective lavert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosotte,have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.

The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean"s flight through the Paris sewers.

PART ONE: FANTINE

BOOK I: AN UPRIGHT MAN

M. Myriel

M. Myriel becomes Monseigneur Bienvenu

Good bishop - hard bishopric

Words answering words

How Monseigneur Bienvenu made his cassock last so long

How he protected his house

Cravatte

After-dinner philosophy

The brother portrayed by the sister

The bishop in the presence of an unknown light

A qualification

Solitude of Monseigneur Bienvenu

What he believed

What he thought

BOOK 2：THE FALL

The night of a day"s tramp

Prudence commended to wisdom

The heroism of passive obedience

Some account of the dairies of Pontarlier

Tranquillity

Jean Valjean

The depths of despair

The waters and the shadow

New griefi

The man awakes

What he does

The bishop at work

Petit Gervais

BOOK 3：IN THE YEAR 1817

The year 1817

Double quatuor

Four to four

Tholomyes is so merry that he sings a Spanish song

At Bombarda"s

A chapter of self admiration

The wisdom of Tholomyes

Death of a horse

Joyous end of joy

BOOK 4: TO ENTRUST IS SOMETIMES TO ABANDON

One mother meets another

First sketch of two equivocal faces

The Lark

BOOK 5:  THE DESCENT

History of an improvement in jet-work

Madeleine

Moneys deposited with Laffitte

Monsieur Madeleine in mourning

Vague fiashes on the horizon

Father Fauchelevent

Fauchelevent becomes a gardener at Paris

Madame Victurnien spends thirty francs on morality

Success of Madame Victurnien

Results of the success

Christus nos liberavit

The idleness of Monsieur Bamatabois

Solution of some questions of municipal police

BOOK 6: JAVERT

The beginning of the rest

How Jean can become champ

BOOK 7:  THE CHAMPMATHlEU AFFAIR

Sister Simplice

Shrewdness of Master Scaufflaire

A tempest in a brain

Forms assumed by suffering during sleep

Clogs in the wheels

Sister Simplice put to the proof

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